Purpose: Due to the large number of intermediaries in logistics networks there is avariety of possible failures, frictions and waste of time and money among the logisticsprocess chain. With the ability to provide data securely in near real-time, liketrack and tracing data of goods to every...

Purpose: Smart contracts are transaction programs with an 'if-then logic' in relation to the blockchain technology and offer new possibilities for production control. Smart orders are derived from production orders and they are based on smart contracts. Therefore, they are created with the...

The ramp-up of a new product leads to changes and adjustments within the production and logistics system of a firm. This change process causes additional costs. The forecasting and planning of costs incurred during the ramp-up phase is still an unsolved problem within ramp-up management. In...

Although supply chain management has been discussed in both science and business for a long time a unified definition does not exist. That causes that the realization of supply chain management in business is very differential. A good approach to realize integrated supply chain management is to...